How to Measure Proportionate Land of Your Apartment (Part 1)

When you buy an apartment, you don’t buy only the apartment but also buy the proportionate undivided and undemarkcated land for which you have to pay a significant amount. Also during the registration process, you have to register your apartment as well as your proportionate land. When buying we usually carefully check the apartment size and but one important aspect of apartment we neglect to check vigilantly is the proportionate land of the apartment.

Now let’s try to learn how to calculate the proportionate land for the apartment you wish to buy.

How to Measure Proportionate Land of Your Apartment

Proportionate Land = {Total Land Area of the Project / Total Construction Area (including Common Area} × Particular apartment area (including common area).

Proportionate land area depends on the apartment size of different floors.

Example-1 for Single Unit Apartment

Consider a project with

Land Area: 5 katha

Project story height: G+8

Number of Apartments: 5

Apartment size 2120 sft in each floor

If you buy A-4 apartment, then what will be the proportionate land area for you?

8th Floor

A-8, 2,120 sft

7th Floor

A-7, 2,120 sft

6th Floor

A-6, 2,120 sft

5th Floor

A-5, 2,120 sft

4th Floor

A-4, 2,120 sft

3rd Floor

A-3, 2,120 sft

2nd Floor

A-2, 2,120 sft

1st Floor

A-1, 2,120 sft

Ground Floor

Solution:

In the project, total construction area 2,120 sft × 8= 16,960 (all apartments are equal in size).

Total land area 5 katha.

A-4 apartment size is 2,120 sft

So, the Proportionate land area for A-4 apartment is

= (Total Land Area/ Total Construction Area) × A-4 apartment size

= (5 Katha / 16,960 sft) × 2,120 sft.

= 0.625 katha.

Example-2 for Double Unit Apartment

Land Area: 9 katha.

Total number of apartments: 16

Project story height: G+8. Each floor has two type apartments. Type A 2,050 and Type B 2,150 sft.

Suppose you buy B 5 apartment, then what will be the proportionate land area?